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Play nice folks!. The personal vilification posts and assorting grumbles have been move to You Know Where.
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Play nice folks!. The personal vilification posts and assorting grumbles have been move to You Know Where.
Originally Posted by skidmark
Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
It was based on the Lola GT, but extensively modified. Ford had to start somewhere, so basically bought the Lola GT off Eric and went from there.Originally Posted by pete376403
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Yep, Ford demonstrated to Ferrari exactly what a truly enormous budget can achieve. Both then and probably now too. Does anyone notice that Ford's greatest claim to fame these days is copying and modernising the one truly great race car they ever made to "better" the latest bargain basement Ferrari? Jeez, a 360 is a nice car, but it's hardly the pinnacle of Ferrari.
And how did Clarkson's write up of the new F430 go? Didn't he wish he'd held out and bought one of them instead?
A mate (single, high income, no kids) was gonna buy one of the NZ GT40 kits a year or two back. But he dicked around and never got around to buying it, and then they changed the specs and doubled the price or something so it just never happened. Which was a shame, cos with him being based overseas, and his Lotus 7 replica taking up floorspace at his parent's place, I was picturing a free GT40 replica in my garage for a while there... firing it up once a month, testing it's high speed stability (or lack of), cruising the beaches...
"You, Madboy, are the Uncooked Pork Sausage of Sausage Beasts. With extra herbs."
- Jim2 c2006
How many of you have heard of the GT60? The 'better' GT40. Built three, crushed two. The third was in NZ waiting on an engine (ex F5000) but was sold overseas.
hmmm i have something somewhere about a gt-something that was built as a rally car, some mid engine two door thing but it was over shadowed by the escort or something.Originally Posted by Skunk
alot of somethings in that.
Shit, I heard about that, not a good look for NZ. But hey, if anyone wants me to look after their supercars, Im more than willing.
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
Ford Rs200 maybe ?. Had silly power and was killing rally drivers. I think someone has one in NZ. The group B cars led to the current turbo restrictors on WRC cars , hence the older crosworth turbo escorts being the next ford WRC
http://www.pistonheads.com/milestones/rs200.htm
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Nah, this was an improved GT40. Only got as far as testing before being scrapped.Originally Posted by ducatilover
Did you see the note about a Group B rally car, would have qualified sixth on a formula 1 grid of the time , that's one serious cage !.
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Funny how Ford had to go to 427 V8's to beat the 4.4 litre Ferraris after the 302's were trounced.Originally Posted by bane
Ettore Bugatti said that Bentley built the fastest lorries in the world.
In that vein, Ford build the fastest sales reps cars in the world.
Speed doesn't kill people.
Stupidity kills people.
Wasn't the whole GT40 issue caused by ego problems between Ford and Ferrari rather than anything else, with Ford pissed off that Enzo wouldn't sell??Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
Enzo Ferrari by that time was widely regarded as one of the best race engineers of the time so I guess Ford needed the extra cubes to make up for the better handling Ferraris.
Still cant lean the things tho...
We all have our little obsessions...
those fucken deltas were awesome! i'd love a delta....Originally Posted by MisterD
what about the quattro? those were mofukers but they had to much weight over the front axle because of the inline 5.. and the mg metro sr6 or something, the name has slipped my mind. they were an atmo v6 werent they?![]()
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